Offensive article on 'Cracked'

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Cracked is an online magazine that used to be a print mag, competing with Mad Magazine. Most of the articles are funny and informative, but today's article by Felix Clay takes a nasty shot at an autistic child and implies that autistic people automatically have no personalities.

The article is a two-page one, and the offensive comment is on the second page.

Since I apparently can't post a link (damnit!! !!) I'll have to do this another way... cracked dot com forward slash blog forward slash the-6-most-horrifying-childs-beauty-pageant-contestants forward slash

I'm not going to bother looking it up. Cracked intends to be offensive and usually succeeds.

Yeah, better to not give them the satisfaction of more 'clicks' to their website.

You know, I used to HATE Cracked. MAD, too. Because they were offensive, and derisive, and sarcastic, and ironic, and all those things I wasn't good at. Reading one was a cover-to-cover assault on my intelligence.

Then I decided I wanted to keep up with my cousins socially (or at least, be able to run with them). Started laughing at their jokes and taunts and, since they loved it, asked Saint Alan for a subscription to MAD.

Well, I learned self-deprecating humor. Sarcasm. Irony. I stretched my brain and grew a thicker skin.

I don't want to live in a world where everything has to be polite and nice, for fear of poking someone's sore spot.

Besides that-- a lot of people have taken pot shots and poked at my tender places. I got better armor. The ones that have actually tried to harm me have, for the most part, used a pleasant, sympathetic demeanor and politically-correct language.

Yikes. Think about that.

I've been reading Cracked's articles for a long time and I think it's a hilarious comedy site, but there are multiple writers for the site and one a**hole of a writer shouldn't really spoil it as a whole.

*sigh* Go back and reread the article, this time calmly. You will find that Felix was using sarcasm, to mock the position that the mother in question was taking (that her daughter couldn't possibly be given a prize for personality, because she has none).

It's not the funniest article on cracked by far though. The best are both educational and hilarious, and if you're reading David Wong, often quite useful information on why people are [redacted for profanity].

Cracked... I loved you all this time... Why, Cracked, Why? Why did you do this to us? After all the love. laughs and ruined childhoods, you do this? Why? What happened? [crying]

Offensive article on 'Cracked'.

In other news, liquid water is still wet ...

Cracked is satire. It's supposed to be offensive. If you are thin skinned, it's best not to read satirical pieces.

those magazines pick on everybody,why worry about it

It was more a criticism of the mom's view. She didn't believe her Autistic daughter deserved the prize. The author was probably trying to emulate that kind of mindset.

I always thought MAD was much better than Cracked. MAD was usually funny while Cracked was just stupid.